Pediatric Intensive Care Unit – Utmost Care for Babies

The birth of a baby and welcoming it in their lives is a great joy to parents. Once they come home, they begin their journey of growing up to become adults. This journey of growing from a baby to an adult involves numerous ups and downs and happiness and sorrow. Thus, with the immunizations and baby wellness, sickness and emergencies when medical interventions become inevitable, visit to hospitals become frequent. Although we come across hospitals and health care centre in almost all places, availability of all health care facilities becomes an issue. Some hospitals may have basic healthcare facilities which may be insufficient to handle all types of problems. Thus, the need of well equipped facilities and presence of qualified doctors becomes the basic necessity of any hospital. Presence of such hospitals across the country can provide the best treatment to all and bring the mortality among kids drastically down. Hospitals established for the healthcare of women and children, deals with most health problems pertaining to women and children. The presence of qualified doctors and other medical staff are very important in such hospitals to handle critical health and accident and trauma cases among both women and children. However the non-existent pediatric intensive care unit may pose some problems in case of emergencies and when there is need of round the clock monitoring required. Why do we need a dedicated pediatric unit and pediatricians to handle children? Physically children differ from adults and the growth of their bodies is different compared to adults. Problems seen among children and adults vary. Some problems like adenoids which are usually seen in children, generally disintegrate as they grow. Thus, an understanding of children, their physical growth, their health and the problems they come across are very important. To deal with such problems it is required to have dedicated pediatricians who can diagnose and treat such problems with care and confidence. It is important to understand that illness and symptoms vary between kids and adults. Hospitals with technically advanced and well equipped Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) are ideal to treat the critical illness among children. The PICU provides round the clock service with qualified doctors and intensivists who are dedicated to provide the best care for your babies. Such PICU will be capable of handling cases of pneumonia, acute asthmatic attack, meningitis, convulsions and other emergencies. They are usually equipped with ventilators and equipments, facilities to support cases of nephrology and infectious disease, pediatric surgery, hemato-oncology, ENT, hepatology and neurology. The advanced monitoring with technology provides the continuous and latest updates of the patients in the PICU. Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Dentistry, ENT, Child Psychology, Pediatric Physiotherapy, new born screening, nephrology and others are some of the departments found in hospitals dedicated for children. Pediatricians with specialization in different fields are dedicated to the care of children in such hospitals.